Biography
Andrée Micheline Ghislaine Tainsy (26 April 1911 – 19 December 2004) was a Belgian actress. She worked with several notable actors like Philippe Noiret, Jean Louis Trintignant, Charlotte Rampling and famous directors like Claude Chabrol, Costas Gavras and François Ozon. Tainsy began her career with theater plays and her first film debut was in 1945, followed by over 80 different cinema and TV works as co-star. She worked until the day of her death. She was born in Etterbeek, Belgium. Andrée Ta...
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Complete Filmography

Kings & Queen
2004
as La grand-mère
Shortly before her wedding, art gallery director Nora travels from Paris to Grenoble to visit her preteen son, Elias, who is spending time with her ag...

Red Sunset
2004
as Princesse Czerry
Michel, was born in Latin America, "on the other side of the world", as the script emphasizes, of a French father he hardly knew at all. He goes to Pa...

Code Unknown
2000
as Mrs. Becker
A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris, France...

Under the Sand
2000
as Suzanne
When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.

Love, etc.
1996
as Mireille
A triangle: love, obsession, and choice. Pierre, a ladies' man who has little cash and no fixed residence, describes his best friend Benoît as the wor...

The Phantom Heart
1996
as The old lady
Philippe is a middle-aged painter, he lives with Annie : they have two kids. Just after they split up, Philippe meets Justine. He starts thinking abou...

Bouvard et Pécuchet
1990
as Germaine
Two retirees obsessed with their desire to know everything put their knowledge into practice in a constantly awkward way.
Simone
1985
as La grand mère
The love affair involving the beautiful Simone and the younger Françoise, coming from a frustrated suicide attempt.

Cop au Vin
1985
as Marthe
Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly.

Boulevard des assassins
1982
as Mrs. Graveline
After a messy divorce, a struggling writer takes a holiday on the French Riviera, where he decides to investigate a series of mysterious incidents.

Mathieu Gaston peluche
1980
as Propriétaire du cheval

Twice a Woman
1979
When a divorced museum director takes a young girl as a lover things quickly become more complicated when her ex-husband also engages in a relationshi...
Adieu voyages lents
1978
as La mère

A. Constant
1977
as Jeanne
Two sisters, Camille and Madeleine, make up the story of a woman: Alice Constant, the servant of their grandfather who committed suicide at the age of...

Gloria
1977
as Estelle
Two ten-year-old children, Gloria and Jacques, meet at the former's birthday party. It is love at first sight and they vow eternal love. Unfortunately...

Spoiled Children
1977
as La locataire âgée
Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate himself from his wife in order to complete the script for...

Solemn Communion
1977
as Charlotte Fourcignie
In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families fro...

Love and Death
1975
as Woman (uncredited)
In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.

Let Joy Reign Supreme
1975
as Nun
A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.

Le tour d'écrou
1974
as Mme Grose
A new governess arrives at a country house to take care of two seemingly angelic young children. But she begins to suspect that the house is haunted, ...

The Watchmaker of St. Paul
1974
as Madeleine Fourmet
Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and informs him that Bernard kille...

A Slightly Pregnant Man
1973
as Clarisse de Saint-Clair
Marco Mazzetti, a driving instructor, lives with his wife Irène and their young son. After a series of nauseous dizzy spells he goes to the doctor and...

Handsome Face
1972
Pierrette, an active labor activist, marries Mario. He had little sympathy for his wife's political activities. Nevertheless, he takes part in a strik...

Man with the Transplanted Brain
1972
Professor Marcilly is a famed brain specialist who, following in-depth and extended research work, is now able to perform brain transplant surgery. On...

Le sagouin
1972
as 'Fraulein'
In the 1930s, in a village in Gironde, Guillou, a young boy in need of affection, nicknamed the Sagouin, unhappy and in need of affection, leads a lif...

Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
1972
as The Grandmother
Faustine suffers the wounds of first love. During a summer when she is staying with her grandmother, she comes to know the nearby neighbors. Two broth...

Le Prussien
1971
as Yvonne
A German prisoner of wars stays in France after the armistice with the woman he loves.

The Strangler
1971
as Jeanne, the owner of the bar restaurant
Émile targets women he believes are too depressed to go on living. As multiple victims fall to his suffocating white scarf, an inspector resorts to un...

Too Small My Friend
1971
as Mme Herbin
Ticky Edriss, a dwarf, develops a scheme to avenge him on society and extort a bank.

Z
1969
as Nick's Mother
Amid a tense political climate, the opposition leader is killed in an apparent accident. When a prosecutor smells a cover-up, witnesses get targeted. ...

Hedda Gabler
1967
as Julie Tesman
Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Trapped but determined, Hedda tries to control th...

The Mad Dog
1966
Claude Brasseur plays a villain on the run from both the police and the mob. Good atmosphere in the Paris by Night, including deserted factory, Les Ha...

The Devil's Tricks
1966
as La mère de Ginette
Ginette Chaluzac, who has left Central France for Paris, now works as a seamstress in a modest workshop in the Marais district. Her life is quiet and ...

How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
1965
as Germaine, Léon's housekeeper (segment "Les Bons Vivants") (uncredited)
The film consists of three novels. The film begins with the fact that the Bernard Blier hero removes a lantern from the entrance to a brothel. The sec...

Fantomas
1964
as Habilleuse
Fantômas is a man of many disguises. He uses maquillage as a weapon. He can impersonate anyone using an array of masks and can create endless confusio...

Diary of a Chambermaid
1964
as La paysanne
Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job a...

Assassin's Check
1962
as La marchande de journaux
In this French murder mystery, a young journalist goes from a bad situation to much worse. He has been having problems in his relationship with his gi...

Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
1959
as Club Hula-Hoop Manager (uncredited)
Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who has re...

End of Desire
1958
as Ludivine - la servante
Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know Ju...

Demoniac
1957
as Business card seller
Gervais escapes from a German concentration camp and assumes the identity of a recently deceased fellow prisoner. Knowing that the dead man has been c...

Les Lumières du soir
1956
as Job seeker
A young opera dancer tries to help her mother financially by performing in a dubious cabaret.

Mannequins of Paris
1956
Véronique Lanier runs one of the most highly rated haute couture houses in Paris. Her first partner is her husband Pierre, who has left aside a promis...

Stain on the Snow
1954
as (uncredited)
La neige était sale is based on a novel and play by the phenomenally prolific Georges Simenon. Upon learning that his mother was a prostitute, Frank (...

Holiday for Henrietta
1952
as (uncredited)
Two scriptwriters argue about the fate of Henrietta, a charming and gamine shopgirl. One favors a comical path for their heroine, who is overcome with...

Matrimonial Agency
1952
as (uncredited)
Noël is a bachelor who inherits a matrimonial agency. After contemplating selling it, he chooses to manage it.

My Wife Is Formidable
1951
as la femme de ménage
Raymond Corbier, a sculptor, has a wonderful wife, Sylvia, whom he adores. To save a passionate admirer who simulates suicide because she does not res...

Julie de Carneilhan
1950
as Madame Sabrier
A penniless aristocrat is fooled by her ex-husband, a crook.

No More Vacation for the Good Lord
1950
Montmartre in the summertime. A group of street urchins idles outside while the other kids of the neighborhood are away on holiday.To keep the gang bu...

The Sinners
1949
as Kitchen girl
Au Royaume des Cieux takes place in in a dreadful girls' reformatory. A couple of lovers will try to escape from this living hell.

Mission in Tangier
1949
as Cabaret sweeper
During the Second World War, Georges Masse undergoes a dangerous mission by taking secret documents from Tangiers to London.

Fantomas Against Fantomas
1949
as (uncredited)
Everyone in Paris thinks Fantomas is dead. A wave of extortion, blackmail and murder all point to the master criminal. Inspector Juve and his reporter...